Groszowice

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Groszowice
Groschowitz
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Groszowice Groschowitz (Poland)
Groszowice Groschowitz
Groszowice
Groschowitz
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Opole
Powiat : District-free city
District of: Opole
Geographic location : 50 ° 38 '  N , 17 ° 58'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 37 '31 "  N , 17 ° 57' 34"  E
Height : 150 m npm
Residents : 2900 (2017)
Postal code : 49-120
Telephone code : (+48) 77
License plate : OP (OPO)
Economy and Transport
Street : DW 423 Opole - Kędzierzyn-Koźle
Next international airport : Wroclaw



Groszowice ( German Groschowitz ) is a district of the independent city of Opole in the Polish Voivodeship of Opole .

geography

Geographical location

Groszowice is located in the historical region of Upper Silesia in the Opole region . The place is about seven kilometers southeast of downtown Opole on the right bank of the Oder and at the confluence of the Czarnka into the Oder.

Groszowice is in the Nizina Śląska ( Silesian Plain ) within the Równina Opolska ( Opole Plain ). To the north of the village is the Opole-Groszowice train station, which is on the Kędzierzyn-Koźle-Opole railway between Opole and the Upper Silesian industrial area. Right next to the train station is the Groszowice quarry pond ( Kamionka Groszowice ) and to the west of it the Groszowice cement works. The provincial road Droga wojewódzka 423 runs through the village in a north-south direction .

Neighboring communities

Groszowice borders in the north on Nowa Wieś Królewska (dt. Königlich Neudorf ), in the north-east on Grudzice (dt. Grudschütz ), in the east on Malina (dt. Malino ) and in the south on Grotowice (dt. Graefort ). On the opposite side of the Oder is the village of Follwark, which belongs to the rural community of Proskau .

history

Church in Groschowitz in the 18th century
Church of St. Catherine of Alexandria
Hotel Villa Park
Entrance building of the Opole-Groszowice station

The place was first mentioned in 1236 as Grossoviz and Grossouicz . People had already lived here on the right bank of the Oder. During the construction of the line of the Upper Silesian Railway in the 1840s, pagan burial places were found in the Groschowitz district. Groschowitz was mentioned again in 1332 as Grossowyc . The place name is derived from the former possessions and means something like the village of Grossow .

After the First Silesian War in 1742, Groschowitz and most of Silesia fell to Prussia .

After the reorganization of the province of Silesia which belonged rural community Groschowitz from 1816 to district Opole in the administrative district of Opole . In 1845 there was a Catholic church, a Catholic school, a farm and 99 houses in the village. In the same year, 771 people lived in Groschowitz, four of them Protestants. In 1861 the place had 958 inhabitants. In 1865 the village had 18 full-time farmers, five half-farmers, 16 gardeners, 15 farmhouses and 52 local farmers. In addition, there were three shoemakers, two blacksmiths, a wheelwright, four tailors and a carpenter in the village in the same year. In 1865 the Catholic school had 155 students. The Catholic Church was consecrated in October 1883. The Oderschleuse was built between 1892 and 1893

After the referendum in Upper Silesia on March 20, 1921, Groschowitz remained with the German Reich . In 1933 there were 3549 inhabitants. In 1939 the place had 3791 inhabitants. On January 18, 1944, a catastrophe occurred at the station when a shunting department drove into the flank of a Wehrmacht transport train passing through. 45 people were killed and many were injured. Until 1945 the place was in the district of Opole .

In 1945 the previously German place came under Polish administration, was renamed Groszowice and joined the Silesian Voivodeship. In 1950 the place came to the Opole Voivodeship. In 1956 the place was incorporated into the city of Opole.

When the Oder floods in 1997 and 2010 , part of the village and the area of ​​the Metalchem ​​company south of Groszowice were flooded.

traffic

At Opole Groszowice station, the Kędzierzyn-Koźle – Opole line meets the Bytom – Wrocław line . In addition, it is the beginning of the railway line Opole – Wrocław (via Jelcz-Laskowice ), which at the beginning of the route was operated only for freight .

Attractions

  • The Roman Catholic Church of St. Catherine of Alexandria (Polish Kościół św. Katarzyny Aleksandryjskiej ) was built between 1880 and 1883. The consecration took place on October 15, 1883. Before that there was already a church with a history going back to the 13th century. This had been a brick church since the 17th century.
  • The villa of the entrepreneur Constans von Prondzynski was built between 1892 and 1896. It is located south of the old town center. Today the house is run as Villa Park as a hotel with a restaurant. Before that, it was a kindergarten for decades and is now located northeast of the church.
  • St. Rochus Chapel
  • Chapel of Our Lady of Sorrows
  • St. Hedwigsbrunnen

societies

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the place

Personalities who have worked on site

  • Ferdinand von Prondzynski (1857–1935), entrepreneur, general director of the Silesian Corporation for Portland cement production in Groschowitz
  • Erwin Körber (1921–2003), politician, attended elementary school in Groschowitz

Web links

Commons : Groszowice (Opole)  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Brochure City Districts Opole p. 22 (Polish)
  2. ^ Districts of Opole
  3. ↑ a b Johann Georg Knie : Alphabetical-statistical-topographical overview of the villages, towns, cities and other places of the royal family. Preuss. Province of Silesia. Breslau 1845, p. 173.
  4. ^ Heinrich Adamy: The Silesian place names and their meaning and Entstechung . Verlag von Priebotsch`s Buchhandlung (Breslau) 1888, p. 17.
  5. ↑ Cf. Felix Triest: Topographisches Handbuch von Oberschlesien , Breslau 1865
  6. ↑ a b History of the Church in Groszowice
  7. ↑ . Oderschlesue Groszowice
  8. ^ A b Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. City and district of Oppeln (Polish: Opole). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  9. ↑ daily report of the Gestapo Opole of 21 January 1944 Section 11
  10. ↑ Pictures from the flood in 1997
  11. ↑ Groszowice flood in 2010
  12. ^ Villa Park